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Dec. 26th, 2023 01:53 pmWhen Arknights talks about fantasy America, there are things it’s definitely saying about real America. So I have to read something into when it talks about fantasy China.
In her Operator Record, Leizi considers the case of a fellow member of the Censorate who had a corrupt official arrested, but used forged evidence to create a pretense for the investigation. Leizi argues that the Censorate oversees others without being overseen itself, so Censors have no choice but to rigidly oversee each other. If Censors allow each other to break the law, it becomes too easy to justify each other’s increasingly murky conduct for increasingly vague notions of the greater good. Therefore, the offending Censor will be tortured and imprisoned despite his many years of exemplary service.
I don’t know what the Censorate corresponds to in real life. But I suspect Chinese players have a much better idea of what the game is saying.
In her Operator Record, Leizi considers the case of a fellow member of the Censorate who had a corrupt official arrested, but used forged evidence to create a pretense for the investigation. Leizi argues that the Censorate oversees others without being overseen itself, so Censors have no choice but to rigidly oversee each other. If Censors allow each other to break the law, it becomes too easy to justify each other’s increasingly murky conduct for increasingly vague notions of the greater good. Therefore, the offending Censor will be tortured and imprisoned despite his many years of exemplary service.
I don’t know what the Censorate corresponds to in real life. But I suspect Chinese players have a much better idea of what the game is saying.
